Creative Assembly's Alien Isolation may be a bit of a departure for the Total War developer, but it's already looking like a much more assured step in a new direction than anything else the developer ...

Fear and tension are difficult reactions to provoke in fiction. In real life, sure, you just need a sharp thing to point at someone, but in entertainment creating sustained fear requires those making ...

The first unveiling of Alien: Isolation was met with overwhelming positivity, contrasting the abject disappointment and despair at Aliens: Colonial Marines. In a single and quite constrained section ...

In Alien Isolation, the first-person survival horror game from Creative Assembly, you end up carrying a revolver - at one point you can even pick up a flamethrower - and as you're exploring the giant, ...

The alien is not the only threat on board the station. That one sentence, flashing up as a loading screen hint, perfectly sums up the philosophy of Alien: Isolation. You might have one of sci-fi’s ...

In the 35 years since Ridley Scott's Alien first terrified audiences around the world, the creature created in the twisted mind of artist HR Giger has slowly been diminished. Video games in particular ...

'Alien Isolation' is out on Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4 and PC from Tuesday October 7. 'Alien Isolation' is a first-person video game inspired by Ridley Scott's 'Alien'. That probably sounds awful, ...

Editor’s Note: This article contains mild spoilers for Alien: Isolation. This year marks the 35th anniversary of Alien, the space horror movie that spawned a cross-media franchise and numerous lesser ...

Survival horror games, it seems, are back in fashion. Whether it’s poking around abandoned asylums in indie hit Outlast, treading carefully through the same stretch of corridor again and again only to ...

One of the reasons Ridley Scott’s Alien was so terrifying is the reluctance to, in Scott’s words, “show you too much of the monster”. That slow burn, the fear of the unknown, glimpses of something ...

Alien: Isolation ($49.99) is one of the best games of the year, and a far cry from 2013's disastrous Aliens: Colonial Marines. Instead of using James Cameron's Aliens as its foundation, as so many ...